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  • Why an elderly lady with a big fighting spirit refused to sell her home to developers

    02/09/2014 8:47:56 AM PST · by EveningStar · 11 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | February 8, 2014 | Barry Martin
    Pick on someone your own size! Why an elderly lady with a big fighting spirit refused to sell her home to developers When Barry Martin took on the role of construction supervisor of a huge Seattle shopping complex, he never imagined that he would end up caring for Edith Macefield, a stubborn 84-year-old who had refused $1 million from the developer to move house. Here he describes their unlikely friendship.
  • Edith Macefield, 1921-2008: Ballard woman held her ground as change closed in around her

    06/18/2008 7:34:08 PM PDT · by XR7 · 14 replies · 301+ views
    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 6/18/2008 | KATHY MULADY
    Edith Macefield died at home, just the way she wanted. The Ballard woman who captured hearts and admirers around the world when she stubbornly turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. She was 86. "I don't want to move. I don't need the money. Money doesn't mean anything," she told the Seattle P-I in October. She continued living in the little old house in the 1400 block of Northwest 46th Street even after concrete walls rose around her, coming within a few feet of her kitchen window....